They Cut Trees in Newfoundland in 1021

They Cut Trees in Newfoundland in 1021At L’Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland, three metal-cut scraps of fir and juniper from a Norse timber-and-sod camp carry a once-in-a-millennium radiocarbon spike from a cosmic-ray event in AD 993. Counting outward to the bark edge pins the felling year at 1021—the first calendar year that places Vikings on North American soil and a marker for the ea…

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